The Public Accounts Committee has attacked the 'unfair and illegal' tax practices of overseas competitors using online trading platforms. Many sellers based outside the EU aren't applying...
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Time Out's Brexit thread rages on with almost 2,000 posts and 20,000 views, as UKBF members follow the UK's tumultuous journey out of the European Union. Recent reports show the UK economy...
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Every week, I'll be sharing with you some journalism that I've enjoyed. Hence the name: What we've been reading. I'm a big believer in omnivorous reading, and I hope to bring you a...
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Greetings UKBFers and congratulations for making it to yet another Friday. Throughout the week, I read all manner of weird and interesting pieces of journalism. So, every week I'll share...
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Every week we curate our favourite pieces of journalism not written by or for us. It's a nifty little list that spans a whole constellation of topics. In our cynical age, no one fails...
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Time for a super special version of Fresh Threads. "Special version" in that it contains no threads, and instead features articles and journalism I've enjoyed. Yes, I've hijacked Kat's...
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It'd be fascinating to see what Samuel Beckett, the legendary playwright famous for his bleak stories, would make of his second life as a startup quote merchant. Richard Branson, the...
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The first two-quarters of 2017 has the UK on track to experience its first dip in new company incorporations since 2008's great recession. Since 2009-10, the number of new startups has...
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Default rates on the government's flagship Start Up Loan programme have reached as high as 50%, as business owners fail to make payments on the personally secured loans. Data obtained...
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If you manage to find the right person, then you will know the value a mentor can give you and your enterprise as you start up, scale and grow. Not all of us are lucky to find such a person...
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Chancellor Philip Hammond will finally address the startup funding black hole created by the UK's exit from the European Union in a speech tonight. In a report last year, BusinessZone...
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It seems apt that this divisive political era - three major votes in two years! - would culminate in one of the most viciously fought elections in memory. Amid all of the political...
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We're days away from hitting the polling stations for the third major vote in two years (David Cameron's 'choose stability and strong government with me or chaos with Ed Miliband' tagline is...
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When Karen started up Café Plum with her husband Ben, their offering of Italian espresso was new to 1997 Fulham. Twenty years later, Café Plum boasts three central London locations...
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We can hardly believe The Pitch is ten years' old! Over the past decade, the team behind The Pitch has been lucky enough to work with thousands of small businesses. And in that time we've done a...
ChrisGoodfellow
Jennifer Adams looks at the Companies House Business Plan review for 2017/18 and asks whether the 'People of Significant Control Register' is doing its job. In an ever changing world of...
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Elections are a magical time where politicians make a vast array of promises to all kinds of people (who often have competing interests) in a desperate bid for popularity. Sloganeering...
ChrisGoodfellow
Arguably one of the foremost features of our variety of capitalist economy is 'boom and bust'. It's such a staple that economists even call it 'the business cycle'. The term describes a...
UKBF Editor
It was Aristotle that gave us one of the earliest - and most succinct - descriptions of learning through experience. 'For the things we have to learn before we can do them,' he wrote, 'we learn by...
UKBF Editor
Just as we had started to get used to the new dividend tax rules, the Chancellor has made changes that impact the tax position of both the self-employed small business owner and similar businesses...
ChrisGoodfellow
